Week 4.2: The Economy of Cyberspace: Electronic Commerce, network markets and internet business models

Required Readings

	Network effects, public goods and competition: SAIL: 30-38
	De Long and Froomkin, The Next Economy? SAIL at 1026-1038
	International law and electronic commerce: SAIL: 1067-68.
	A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, Magaziner Report: 1997, SAIL at 1063-1066: see especially "A Uniform Code for Electronic Commerce: http://www.ecommerce.gov/framewrk.htm
	Third Annual Report Of Electronic Commerce Working Group, Leadership for the New Millennium, Delivering on Digital Progress and Prosperity, 2001: read Part III: Legal and Regulatory Environment: http://www.ecommerce.gov/ecomnews/ecommerce2000annual.pdf
	Rappa, Business Models on the Web: http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html
	Bambury, A Taxonomy of Internet Commerce: http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/radin/ecommerce/overview.shtml
	E-business edgy after hackers shut British firm, 2/2002: http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/064821.htm

Case Study: Online contracts:

	UNCITRAL: SAIL at 1068;
	UNCITRAL model law on electronic commerce 1996 http://www.uncitral.org/english/texts/electcom/ml-ec.htm
	Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_cong_bills&docid=f:s761enr.txt.pdf
	California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act California Civil Code, section 1633.1: <http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/civ/1633.1-1633.17.html>

Optional

	Afuah and Tucci, Internet Business Models and Strategies: Introduction: http://www.mhhe.com/business/management/afuahtucci/sample.mhtml
	Anderson, The Accidental Superhighway: http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/accidentalsuperhighway.htm
	Jonathan Coppel, E-Commerce: Impacts and Policy Challenges, OECD Economics Department Working Paper NO. 252, June 2000: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2000doc.nsf/linkto/eco-wkp(2000)25
	The Emerging Digital Economy II, 1999: chapter 1, Electronic Commerce in the Digital Economy: http://www.ecommerce.gov/ede/report.html
	Timmers, Business Models for Electronic Markets http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/radin/ecommerce/overview.shtml
	Compare: European Initiatives in Electronic Commerce: <http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ecommerce/legal/legal.html> <http://www.ecommerce.gov/internat.htm>
	Case study: California digital signature regulations: http://www.ss.ca.gov/digsig/digsig.htm
	Recent documents of UNCITRAL and Working Group on Electronic Commerce: http://www.uncitral.org/english/sessions/wg_ec/
	Smedinghoff Bro, Moving with Change: Electronic Signature Legislation as a Vehicle for Advancing E-Commerce: http://www.bmck.com/ecommerce/moveart.doc

Discussion

	How should the presence of network externalities with respect to computer software affect the analysis of intellectual property protection? (SAIL at 38).
	List the possible benefits and drawbacks of electronic commerce that decisionmakers may have to take into account in cases concerning the balancing of business to business or buyer and seller interests.
	Taking account of the work of UNCITRAL, evaluate the efforts underway to date to establish a uniform code for electronic commerce.

Note: Lessig: The Limits of Open Code: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/14_2/Lessig/html/reader.ht